My lo will usually wake up and cry once a night for a minute or two before going back to sleep. In just the past few days, she has had a few very long crying sessions and I've went in and nursed her. I'm doing 15 but MAN it's tough!!!
What's your time limit?
squash / 13764 posts
Totally depends on his cry...if he's hysterical sobbing I'll only wait maybe 2 minutes to see if he calms down. If he's whining, I'll leave him up to 15-20...sometimes he'll do the cry-on-and-off thing, which sucks because I feel like he always stops right as I'm at the door to go in, so I don't and then he ramps up again!
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
Are you talking in the middle of the night? I usually give it 20 minutes. If she is just fussy or whining, then I will still wait. If after 20 minutes she is full on crying, then I go in her room. She usually never starts out full on crying. If she does then I go in within a couple minutes.
grapefruit / 4066 posts
i do exactly what @hilsy85 does. if she is hysterically crying the most i can wait is like 1-2 minutes. if she is just fussing or tired crying, i will let her go for a bit. i figure, if she is hysterical it has to be for a reason, since she normally puts herself to sleep if she wakes up at night and i do not want to just let her cry herself to sleep in that state.
pomegranate / 3768 posts
Well LO sleeps in the same room as us since we have a one bedroom so I never let her cry for too long. The longest might be 15 minutes and I wanted to pull my hair out. The cries are 100x louder when they are a few steps away from you! Gah!
pomegranate / 3604 posts
Depends on his cry. Usually it's 5 minutes.
If he's overtired/fighting sleep and me going in wont help matters, I've let him cry up to 20.
ETA: this is after I've exhausted every other method and he's been up for far too long in any case.
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
Agree with others that it depends on the cry, but on average about 15 minutes. He usually falls right back asleep though.
pomegranate / 3225 posts
10 mins is my max, but I usually go in before unless I know she's overtired and really going to have a tough night.
grapefruit / 4923 posts
15-20 minutes. it feels like so much longer in the middle of the night.
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
10 minutes is my limit, although Hubs is a wimp and usually checks on him after 2 so... it's not working, haha.
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